Transcendence
Subtitle: seekers and seers in the age of Thoreau
By: by Francois Specq
Edition: 1st ed
Series: Directions 21 book
Publisher: Higganum Hill Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Higganum, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Transcendentalism (New England); Spirituality in literature; Spirituality in art; Nature in literature; Nature in art; Nature -- Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index
Table of contents: title: Frederic Church's America; title: Thoreau's "Chesuncook"; title: Thoreau's flowering of facts and the truth of experience; title: Dwelling and labyrinth in Thoreau's journal; title: "Losing sight of oneself in what one sees": nature writing and Thoreau's journal; title: Emerson's literary ethics; title: Emerson's rhetoric of empowerment; title: "Truth comes in with darkness": transparence and opacity in "The piazza"; title: Prophecy and the grotesque in "The encantadas"; title: Melville's dream; title: Quest for the sublime and rhetoric of empire in Bradford's Arctic regions